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THE PUBLIC DEBT A DEMOCRATIC LEGACY, 



.R395 The First Rebellion a Rally for Slavery. 

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WHAT IT COST THE NATION. 



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PUBLISHED BY THE UNION REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



WHO BEGUN THE RERELLION. 

"/tcitV tell you another fact, which is enough for this time, that as the late war was prodcced 

BY THE DEFBATED DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1800, SO wc shall never have peace till it is restored to povxrr 

in 1868." 

Kx-Unitfd states and ex- Confederate Stales Senator Toombs' speech at Atlanta, Oa., July 8, 1868. 



WHAT THEY BEGUN IT FOR. 

"l^hc new (Confederate) Constitution ha^ put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating 
to cur peculiar institutions — African Slavevg — as it exists amongst us, the proper status of the negro 
in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late ruptdre and present 
RF.VOLUTION. » » * Qur new Government is founded up)on exactly the opposite idea — (ihe 
idea of Mr. JefiFerson that 'the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature, 
and wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.') Its foundations are laid — its corner 
stone rests upon the great truth « * * that slavery subordination to the superior race is 
HIS {the negro's) natural and normal condition !" 

Confederate Vice-President A. IT. Stephens' speech at Savannah, Ga., March 21, ISGU 



In 1856, James Buchanan, "a northern man with southern principles," was 
elected President of the United States. At this time, and during th(i whole of his 
administration, until after the triumph of the Republican party in 18G0, the country 
was at peace with all the world, the Government was respected abroad, and the 
people were prosperous and happy. The annual resources of the national Treasury 
far exceeded its expenditures ; taxations for the support of the Government had no 
existence, and the national debt was merely nominal. 

Upon the elevation of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, he surrounded himself 
with some of the worst men in the nation, and selected to constitute a majority of 
his cabinet, either avotced secessiojii'sts, like Cobb, Floyd, and Thompson, or the 
still more infamous Toucey, all of whom were life-long Democrats, and gave their 
whole personal and official influence to the work of organizing the rebellion while 
constituting a portion of the Government. 

For years, the South had been threating a dissolution of the Union, encouraged 
by the leaders of the Democratic party north. 

PREPARATIONS FOR THE REBELLION. 

Very soon after the inauguration of Buchanan, the slave-holding democracy com- 
menced, more actively than ever, preparations for their long-threatened rebellion. 
Everywhere throughout' the South the people were organized into military bands and 
subject to military discipline. 

In this active preparation for civil war, they were op6nly and efBciently aided by 
Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. Floyd stole arms from the arsenals North and sent thcpi 



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to the Southern States to be used in arming the conspirators. He also sent the whole 
army into Texas to be surrendered to the rebels the moment the first blow should be 
struck against the Goverment, while Toucey ordered the navy to distant foreign ports, 
and Cobb was successfully employed in exhausting the public Treasury and destroying 
the national credit. 

By these means tfie Democratic party South, actively assisted hy a Democratic 
Administration, and openly encouraged by the democratic leaders North, 
believed they had rendered the Government powerless and put the success of their 
rebellion beyond all contingency. 

FEEMONT'S ELECTION TO BE A SIGNAL FOR EEVOLT. 

Previous to the elections of 1856, it had been arranged that the election of Free- 
mont should be the signal for secession from the Union then, though they were not 
fully prepared for the fatal plunge. His defeat enabled them to postpone the blow 
till the next election, and gave them time to complete their treasonable arrangements. 

The election of Mr. Douglass, or any other Northern democrat not pledged to the 
purposes of the secessionists, no less than Mr. Lincoln's, would have been seized upon 
as the pretext for revolt, just as Mr. Lincoln's was. 

THE FIRST ACT OF WAR. 

Immediately upon the success of the Kepublican party being known, though it 
was not denied that Mr. Lincoln was elected in strict accordance with every legal and 
constitutional requirement, one Southern State after another seceded from the Union 
and open war was commenced ; first, by seizing Forts, Arsenals, Ncmy Yards, Mints, 
Custom Houses, Post Offices; stealing the public money, appropriating all the public 
property within the limits of the Southern States to their treasonable purposes; then 
by organizing a?i independent government, and finally by firing upon the Star of 
THE West, sent on the humane and peaceful mission of relieving the starving, besieged 
garrison of Port Sumter. 

Thus the Democratic party South, loith the open and poicerful assistance of a 
Democratic Administration, and the leaders of the Democratic party North, com- 
menced A four years civil war — the wickedest, the crudest, the bloodiest the world 
ever saw, and all to establish a government " lohose corner-stone was to be slavery." 

NO JUSTIFICATIOK FOR TREASON. 

At the time the slave-holding and slavery-defending democrary began this terrible 
civil war, the government of the country was practically in their hands, as it had 
been for sixty years, with very brief intervals. Though a republican president had 
been elected, the Supreme Court and both branches of Congress were against him, 
and the Republican party was, therefore, absolutely powerless. Both the Legislative 
and Judicial departments of the Government were democratic, for the republicans had 
not a majority in the House, while the other branch of Congress was overwhelming 
against them. Mr. Lincoln could not even have secured a cabinet unless with the 
"consent" of his political opponents. Slavery was as safe as it had been any ti)ne 
in sixty years. Not a law on that, nor indeed on any other subject, could the Republi- 
can party have passed if the Democratic senators and members had all stood at their post. 

But they had been threatening secession for nearly thirty years, had been vigor- 
ously organizing for civil war for four years, and were all ready to raise the bloody 
flag of rebellion as soon as the result of the election of 1860 should be declared. 
They at once plunged madly into the contest for disunion, sovereignty , and slavery. 

WHAT THIS DEMOCRATIC REBELLION COST. ^ ' '' - 

And now let us count the cost of this Democratic civil war — a war inaugurated 
under a democratic administration, encouraged by a democratic president, actively 
aided by democratic members of his cabinet, begun by the democratic leaders, and 
carried on by the Democratic party, a war in which every' man who fought against 
tJie old flag was a democrat, every man v:ho encouraged the rebellion was a democrat, 
and a war in which every RepidAican in the Union was on the side of the Government. 

To begin, then, this democratic rebellion cost the nation a four years' war, 



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mare unjust, and cruel, and unnecessary than any in the history of the world, and 
'Z^m •which a more brutal, revengeful., and barbarian spirit was exhibited by its authors 
^v than by any other people, either savage or civilized. 

^,. This four years' democratic war cost us the lives of three hundred thousand as 

'-.brave, patriotic, noble hearted, intelligent "men as ever died in defence of their 

^ jcountry. 

•^ This four years' democratic war has also made three hundred thousand equally 

V\ brave, patriotic, noble hearted men cripples, and many of them pensioners for life. 

This four years' democratic war has made teii hundred thousand widows 

and orpJians, depriving them of their natural protectors and rendering them dependent 

upon the liberality of the people through the bounty of the Government. 

This four years' democratic war has cost the people three thousand millions 
OF DOLLARS, every cent rendered absolutely necessary to save the nation against this 
mighty democratic conspiracy, and every cent of which, except what fell into the 
hands of disloyal democratic speculators, was expended in enabling GcTieral Grant to 
overthrow this democratic rebellion. 

This four years' democratic war has left upon the people a national debt of 
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. J^ot one cent of this debt would have 
existed had not the Democratic party, under a Democratic Administration, headed 
by Democratic members of the Government, begun the rebellion without any cause, 
and for no other purpose than to establish a sLAVE-iiOLDiNa confederacy. 

This four years' democratic war has caused, and is now causing, a yearly tax 
of two hundred millions of dollars upon the people to pay the interest on this democratic 
naiiorud debt, the pensions to disabled soldiers, and to the widows and orphans of 
those who died in defence of their country. 

This four years' democratic war, in causing an enormous national debt, and 
in substituting a paper for a specie currency, has so inflated prices, that the people 
can now buy no more with two dollars than they could with one before the Demo- 
cratic party brought upon us this enormous democratic debt. 

This four years' democratic war has fastened a burden of taxation upon the 
people, that fur forty years loill eat up, directly and indirectly, a tenth part of 
every man\ earnings. And this tax is the inevitable result of a war begun by the 
Democratic party without the slightest justification — begun deliberately and wickedly, 
after counting all the cost and four years' careful, zealous, and systematic preparations. 

ITS EFFECTS UPON THE SOUTH. 

But the terrible consequences of this four years' democratic war have not been 
confined to the loyal States. It has caused the most unutterable woe to the poor 
people of the South. As many of them xoere sacrificed in this rear for slavery, as 
many maimed hi battle, and as many widmcs and orphans made as at the North, 
lohile infinitely more property icas destroyed by the ravages of war. And yet the 
mass of the southern people had nothing to gain and nothing to hope, even from 
the success of the rebellion. The war was begun and carried on by the Demo- 
cratic party for the benefit of the privileged class of slave-holders, against 
the interest of the vast majority of the people. 

This four years' democratic war begun and carried on, as the vice jyresident 
of the rebel government officially declafed, to perpetuate and extend slavery, 
could have no other result than still further to degrade the poor white man and make 
him still more dependent upon a slave-holding aristocracy . Tnis was its secondary 
0B.1ECT. The census of 1860 shows slave property then to be worth /o!/r thousand 
millions of dollars, and the land, &c. , held by the slave owners to have been worth 
as much more. Besides owning all the material property of the South, the slave- 
holding oligarchy possessed absolutely the whole political power of the old slave 
States, and for sixty years had substantially controlled the enti-re policy of the general 
government, partly through the extra members of Congress their slaves gave them, 
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In 1860 the slave States contaiueil about twelve millions of people, of whom 
four millions were slaves, and eight millious whites, only tuukk iiundked and iifty 
'iiiovsx'SD uf ichom were slave-hoUIers, o\yiii'Sii all tue puopekty, exercisikg all 
TUE POWEK, AND CONTKOLUNG TUE DUSTINIES of the white people as ahsulutdij and 
tijrannicaUy as they did the negroes. iLwas for the sole bcwjit »f this privll'-ged class 
that three hundred thousand lives of Southern white men \7ere sacrificed, a7id a 
inillion of widows and orjjhans created. And this oligarchy of slave-holders ifas hut 
one twentij- fourth part of the Southern white pjopulation, and less than a seventieth 
part of the white p>opulation of the whole nation. 

WAGED TO ENSLAVE THE POOR. 

In TUis DEMOCRATIC WAR, waged to perpetuate, the privileges and power of this 
mean and cruel oligarchy, to degrade still further the poor wuites, to render labor 
s!dl more odious, and poverty still harder to be borne, the icorhing masses of the 
isouth fought four long years, shedding blood like water, and making themselves 
almost literally a nation of paupers. The oligarchy, though they lost their slaves, 
still keep their lands. They are now laboring again to '' fire the Southern hexrt,''^ 
find to incite, with the aid of Seymour and Blair, another democratic, rebellion, 
through the means of which they hope to regain their loxt power, re-estadlisii 
SLAVERY, repudiate THE PUBLIC DEBT, and retain the Southern white masses inignor- 
ance and dcgredation I 

This is a part of the price the people were compelled to pay, and a part of the 
burden they are still compelled to bear as a penalty for permitting the Democratic 
victory of 1856; and these are some of the fearful consequences of the four years' 
war, which was begun and carried on by the Democratic party, through the aid, 
I xtendcd to the conspirators by the democratic administration which that victory 
broiigJd into p>ower, to destroy the Government and perpetuate slavery. 

democratic fraud and FALSEHOOD. 

A violent attempt has been made by the baser sort of the copperhead Democracy 
to hold the Republican party in some way responsible for the crushing weight oj 
taxation this democratic rebellion has brought vjxm the people. But the charge 
itself is treason, for it implies that tlie Bepubliean party should have made no effort 
to jnd down the rebellion and save the Union. If they had made no resistance to 
their armed attack upon the Government, bat permitted them, peaceably, to destroy 
the Union and establish a slave-holding confederacy vpon its ruins, there would have 
been no war, no national debt, no ta.xatio.v ! 

TREASON TO BE MADE HONORABLE AND LOYALTY ODIOUS. 

The American people are asked to mahe treason a virtue and loyalty a crime 
by the election of the rebel candidates for President and Vice-President in prefv;ronce 
to the General who overthrew the rebellion and saved the Union, and to punish by 
defeat the Republican party, who furnished Grant the men and means to accomplish 
that object at the expense of a large national debt, and to reward by victory the 
Democratic party, whose treason and rebellion rendered that debt necessary. Such 
a verdict would convert the men who served this nation into traitors and those who 
fought four years to destny it into patriots! 

Mr. Seymour's New York "friends," who inaugurated, at his suggestion, the auti- 
draftriot of July, 1803, and murdered negroes, burnt orphan asylums, and destroyed 
the property of loyal men, have shown a keener sense of decency and prnpiiety 
than the advocates of Seymour and Blair have in thus attempting to hold the Repub- 
lican party responsible for the burdens which their own crimes brought upon the 
country. They have not been shameless enough to charge upon the National Gov- 
ernment, or the party which controlled it, the responsibility of the expense rendered 
necessary to suppress the riot, and to pay for the property they burnt and the lives 
they sacrificed. 

The copperhead demand, that the American people shall punish, ns criminals, the 
Repiiblicau party for the present national debt, and its burden of taxation, could find 
no litter and more siirnificant illustration than in the conduct of the sou who sought 



to take from a father the control of his estate, on the ground of incompetency or 
dishonesty, because he had entailed a debt upon it in extinguishing a fire which that 
incendiary son had wilfully communicated to it. 

The Democratic party, in 18G0, applied the incendiary torch of civil war to the 
fabric jf civil liberty erected by the Fathers of the Republic, and for four long years 
labored with bloody ferocity to destroy it. They failed in their treasonable designs, 
and the nation was saved. They now ask the people to hurl from power the party 
who thwarted their conspiracy and to give them the control of the Government tchich 
they sacrificed tuhee hundred tuousand lives and compelled the expenditure of 
TUiiEE TUOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in trying to destroy I 

IS THE UNION WOKTH WHAT IT COST? 

The question for the American people to decide is — first, whether the Republican 
party icere guilty of a crime, by armed resistance to the efforts of the Rebel Democracy 
to overthrow the Government ; and second, if they were not, whether the price paid 
for jrntting down the rebellion and saving our free Rcp)uhlican Institutions, purged of 
the only blot upon them, 2vas more than they luere worth. If they believe the Repub- 
lican party should have permitted the government, founded hy Washington and his 
associates, to be destroyed without a struggle to save it, or that it is not worth 
the lives and treasure which that struggle involved, they tvill elect Seymour and Blair, 
TUE candidates NOMINATED BY THE REBELS. If they think the establishment of Lib- 
erty, Justice, and Equal Rights on this continent is worth the sacrifices made to secure 
tbem, tliey will elect Grant and Colfax, the candidates of the loyal men of the nation. 

DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION. 

Whether the war cost more than it ought is not a question for its authors to raise, 
because in all the frauds committed upon the Government during its existence, they 
have been the greatest and most numerous criminals, stealing fifty dollars to the 
Republican's one. 

Nor does it become the rebel and copperhead Democracy to complain of the burden 
of taxation for another reason. They not only created the national debt, but it is by 

THEIR frauds THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS SWINDLED OUT OF THE REVENUE WHICH WOULD 

so LESSEN THE BURDEN OF TAXATION as to make it Scarcely felt by the peoph. 

f^inety millions of gallons of whiskey are annually manufactured, subject to a 
tax of two dollars per gallon, or one hundred and eighty millions in the aggre- 
gate; but through the influence of the "Whiskey Ring,'' composed exclusively of 
copperheads and rebels, and sustained by the President and his Democratic supporters, 
only thirty millions annually (last year less than half that sum) is paid into the 
Treasury, and the tax payers are tjierefore cheated out of ove hundred and fifty 
millions of dollars annually, which they must make^ vp in taxes. This theft is 
committed by democrats, every one of whom is the noisy advocate of Seymour and 
Blair. 

REPUBLICAN ECONOMY. 

A few facts will show how free from prodigality and corruption the Republican 
party has been since it came into power, and that it has been far more economical 
than its predecessors in all ordinary expenditures. 

No comparison, of course, can be made of the cost of the war and many depart- 
ments of the Government between Mr. Buchanan's administration and the republi- 
can administration which succeeded it; but there can be between the two adminis- 
trations in regard to the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government. And this 
comparison is most favorable to the Republican party. Read the following facts: 
Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government during 1860, the last year of 

Mr. Buchanan's administration, was $45,7^6,058 

First year of Mr. Lincoln's, 1861 $46.14.'!. 059 

Founh " " 1864 27,800,400 

First year of Johnson's, 1865 40 .346.55.3 

Second " " 1866 42,420,8:0 

Third " " 1867 52,008,021 

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Which is an average of about ^41 ,700,000 yearly, or an average of four millions a year 
less since tht Republicans came into power, and covering the whole period of the war, 
than during the last year of Mr. Buchanan's administration. This item, it must be 
remembered, includes the salaries of all officers engaged in the civil service at home — 
president, members of the cabinet, heads of bureaus, revenue officers, clerks, &c., as 
well as oixr diplomatic agents. And yet, notwithstanding the enormous increase oi 
clerks and other civil officers, especially those connected with the internal revenue 
departiuent, rendered necessary by this great Democratic rebellion, four millions ol 
dollars annually have been saved to the tax payers of the nation in our civil and 
diplomatic expenditures alone, for seven years, making an aggregate of twenty-eight 
millions. The years 18G2 and 1863 have been omitted because the payment on the 
public debt for those years is included in the statement of civil and diplomatic ex- 
penses in the Financial Report from which these figures are taken. 

The expenditure of Mr. Buchanan's administration, the last year of its existence, 
was, in gold, a little over ^80,000,000, or more than $112,000,000 in greenbacks 
at the present rate of exchange. This too was when the army was vastly less than 
it is now, and the navy scarcely half as large. 

For the ordinary expenses of the Government for the fiscal year, which begun 
the 1st day of July, 1868, the appropriation by a Republican Congress was one 
hundred and six millions eight hundred thousand dollars, being more than five millions 
OF DOLLARS LESS, when reduced to gold, than Mr, Buchanan expended the last year of 
his rule. These are only fair examples of the economy of a Republican Congress in 
every department of the public service. They have labored with unceasing zeal 
and fidelity to lessen the burdens brought upon the people by the Democratic rebel- 
ion of 1861. 

ANOTHER CIVIL WAR THREATENED. 

But the copperhead and rebel democracy are not satisfied with the awful calamity they 

, brought upon the nation by that wicked and bloody conspiracy, the hundreds of 

thousands of lives they sacraficed, the millions of widows and orphans they made, 

the three thousand millions of dollars they expended, the enormous and grinding national 

debt and its contingent weight of taxation they created.. 

The taste for blood, and the love for plunder and devastation and ruin, which that 
four years of carnage and crime begat, instead of being satiated, has only been 
sharpened by what it fed upon. And they are now inaugurating another civil war. 

If the democracy elects Seymour and Blair, they declare that the first act of their 
President will be the commencement of a war to overturn the Southa-n reorganized State 
governments, to annul all the reconstruction laws of Congress, to take from the colored 
people of the South the right to vote, and to disperse Congress at the point of the 
BAYONET, if it shall stand in the way of these great Democratic reforms ! 

This SECOND DEMOCRATIC CIVIL WAR, which is only to be prevented by their defeat 
at the polls, will, undoubtedly, be as long and bloody, and destructive and expen- 
sive as their first revolt, and will cost the nation another three thousand millions 
OF dollars, three hundred thousand more precious lives, and make another million of 
widows and orphans ! 

There is evidence, strong as proofs of holy writ, that the copperhead and rebel 
democracy are preparing to precipitate the nation into such a second rebellion, 
if the people, in their madness, or God in Ilis wrath, should permit Horatio Seymour 
to be elected President and Frank Blair Vice President. This evidence // the solemn 
declaration of the candidates of that corrupt, utterly unscrupulous, and disloyal party — 
the platform adopted at their New York National Convention, the avowel of all the 
Sonthern rebels, delegates to that convention, and others who dictated its policy and 
are its admitted leaders, such as Howell Cobb, Robert P. Toombs. A. H. Stephens, 
General Forest, General Wade Hampton, General Preston, Gov. Vance, Gov. 
Perry, Basil Duke, Barksdale, Beauregard, Vallandigham, &c., the tone of the copper- 
head rebel press generally, and the whole spirit and temper of the rebel people and their 
Northern henchmen. 



THE PROOF OF THEIR INTENDED REBELLION. 

The treasonable letter of Frank Blair, which procured him the nomination he holds, was 
indorsed by the New York rebel Convention, and is the key-note of the campaign. It is, 
therefore, an authentic and official declaration of the purposes of the rebel and copperhead 
Democracy. It is dated June 30th, and contains this threat of civil war: 

"If the President elected by the Democracy enforces, or permits others to enforce, these 
reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the accession of twenty spurious Senators and fifty Repre- 
sentatives, will control both branches of Congress, and his administration will be as powerless 
as the present one of Mr. .Johnson. 

"There is but one way to restore the Government and the Constitution, and that is for the 

PRKSIDENT-ELECT TO DECLARE THESE ACT8 NULL AND VOID, COMI'KL THE ARMY TO UNDO ITS USURPA- 
TIONS AT THE South, disperse the carpet-bag State governments, allow the white people to 

REORGANIZE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS, AND ELECT SENATORS AND RePRESE.NTATIVES. 

" We must restore the Constitution before we can restore the finances, and to do this we 
must have a President who will execute the will of the people ry trampling into dust thb 

DSURPATIONS of CoNGRESS, KNOWN AS THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS. 

CLAIR'S TREASONABLE THREAT ENDORSED. 

The New York copperhead Convention, which did not contain a loyal delegate from tho 
South, nor one who had not taken an active part against the Government, gave General 
Hampton, the bitterest rebel of them all, unconditional authority to place any plank in the 
platform the South might demand; and he placed there this endorsement of Blair's threat of 
civil war, which the Convention approved by .acclamation : 

"Resolved, That we regard the reconstruction acts (so called) of Congress as usurpa- 
tions, AND unconstitutional, REVOLUTIONARY, AND VOID." 

Here is General Hampton's own construction of the meaning of this resolutioo, delivered 
at a mass meeting of the copperhead and rebel Democracy before he left New York : 

" We can have no relief until the Democratic party will come out and pledge itself that the white 
people of the South shall vote. I want you all to register an oath thai, when they do vote, their votes 
shall he counted, and if there is a majority of white votes, that you will place Seymour and 
Blair in the White House in spite of all the bayonets that shall be brought against theii." 

All but a few of the worst rebels vote now; they cannot vute without "trampling the law3 
under foot," as they propose. 

JOII^'SON TO BEGIN WAR BEFORE THE ELECTION. 

The President clearly intends to take the lead in the proposed rebellion, by destroying the 
new State govornments, and nullifying the laws of Congress before the election. This is an 
improvement on the rebel and copperhead policy, which is to commence the rebellion only in 
case of Sej'inour's election. But Johnson means the rebel votes shall be counted for him. 
In his veto of the electoral college bill he thus lays down his way to begin the war. After 
expressing his opinion that the rebel States wei'e legally "organized and restored " under hia 
"policy," prior to March 4, ISGY, he says : 

"The only legitimate authority under which the election for President and Vice-President 
can be held therein must be derived from the governments instituted before that period. It 
ckarly follows that the State governments organized in those States, under act of Congress for that 
purpose, as under militar)/ control, are illegitimate and of no validity whatever; and, in 

THAT VIEW, the VOTES CAST IN THOSE StATES FOR PRESIDENT AND ViCE-PrESIDENT IN PURSUANCE OF 
acts PASSED SINCE THE 4tH OF MaRCH, 18G7, AND IN OBEDIENCE TO THE SO-CALLED ACTS OF C0N(;RKSS, 
CANNOT BE LEGALLY RECEIVED AND COUNTED ; WHILE THE ONLY VOTES IN THOSE STATES THAT CAN BE 
L>:GALLY cast and counted will be THOSE CAST IN PURSUANCE OF THE LAWS IN FORCE IN THB 

BEVERAL States prior to the legislation by Congress upon the subject of reconstruction." 

GOVERNOR PERRY SAYS BLAIR'S LETTER MUST BE CARRIED OUT. 

At a meeting of rebels, held in Charleston, to ratify their nominations at New York, Gov- 
ernor Perry, a rebel delegate who had just returned from that conclave of traitors, said : 

"Hampton was the lion of the Convention. Hami)ton was courted by all parties. North, 
South, East, and West; and when, as a member of the Committee on Platform, he submitted that 
section ichich declares the reconstruction acts void and revolutionary, the rest of the committee tald 
him to make it as strong as he pleased — they would endorse it. He paid the highest encomiums to 
Seymour and Blair. Alluding to the late act of Congress rcspeuting the electoral college, he 
{■aid it was the greatest fraud yet attempted, and meant that if the Southern States cast their 
votes for Grant they would be counted ; if for Seymour they would be excluded. In this case, 
he said General Blair's letter would have a practical illustration, and the Democrats North 
and South would rise up and drive the usurpers from the halls of legislation. 



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HOWELL COBB'S ADVICE TO REBELS. 

Cobb, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan, and used his position first to 
ruin the credit of this Government, and then to overthrow it, is as black-hearted a traitor now 
as he was tlien. He recently made a speech to the traitors at Atlanta, in which he exhibited 
this infernal spirit toward the loyal, true men of the State : 

"You owe it to the living, you owe it to your own children and to their children. Write 
down in their memories this day and all d.ays, and for all time to come, the feeling and spirit 
of abhorrence with which you regard and estimate these men. Oh, Heaven ! for some blister^ 
irig wordii, that I may write infamy upon the foreheads of these men [applause]; that they may 
travel through earth despised of all men and rejected of Hiaven, scorned by the devil hiimclf. ' They 
may seek their final congenial resting place under the mudsills of that ancient institution. 
* * * Upon.them there should be no mercy. They have dishonored (hemtselves and 

sought to dishonor you. Anathematize them. Drive them from the pale of social and political 
society. Leave them to wallow in their own mire and filih. Nobody will ever envy thorn ; 
and if they are never taken out of the gully until I reach forth my hand to take them up, they 
will die in their natural element." 

THE LAW TO BE DISREGARDED. 

The Charleston Mercury gives public notice that the Seymourites of that State will neither 
obey the laws nor recognize the debts of her present Government. Says this admirer of Frank 
Blair : 

" It (Gen. Canby's Government) has forced into assumed supremacy the negro race on the 
one side, over the white race on the other ; and has left them to settle which race shall rule 
South Carolina. Of course, from the very nature of things, the white race will not be held re- 
sponsible for the actings and doings of the negroes. They will redeem no debts they may 
incur; they will pay no taxes they may lay ; they will kecoonize the validity of no laws thky 
MAY PASS. ^ They intend to rule themselves, and not to be ruled by negroes ; and any man who 
shall aid tl'e efforts of the negroes to rule them, by loaning their money under fraudulent use 
of the name of South Carolina, is much more likely to be treated by them as an enemy than be 
recognized as a lawful creditor. Let every one, therefore, who is disposed to loan his money 
to the carpet-baggers and negroes distinctly understand that the people op South Gauolina 

WILL pay not one FARTHING OF THE DEBT." 

BALLOTS FIRST-THEN BULLETS. 

The Mobile Tribune has no doubts about the real issue of the impending contest. Ballots 
first, to keep up appearances, and then bullets. The Tribune puts the case plainly : 

" Friends— fellow-citizens of Mobile— comrades of the Queen City of the Gulf! let us make 
one more effort in behalf of our rights and our liberties. If we are successful in the approach- 
i.sG contest we shall regain all that wb lost in the ' Lost Cause.' We shall be able to 
reverse the iron rule which has been imposed upon us, and turning that iron into brands of 
fire, hurl them back on the heads of the flagitious wretches who have inflicted so many foul 
flagrant wrongs on our bleeding country. Once more to the breach then — yet once more ! and 
when the cloud shall have cleared away from the flaming field, our flag — the grand old demo- 
cratic flag — will be seen in all its glory, streaming like the thunder-cloud against the wind. 
Let us then rally once more around The Dear Old Flau which we have followed so often to 
glory and to victory." 

SENTIMENT OF PROMINENT SOUTHERN REBELS. 
Mr. Williamson, a prominent Democrat, of Shrevcport, La., made a Seymour and Blair speech 
in New Orleans recently. He "arraigned the Radicals," and this is one of the counts of his 
indictment: 

" We arraign them in the name of our own dearly beloved Confederate dead [cheers] whose 
bones are strewn all over the north-west ; killed in battle by the atrocious cruelty of the 
Radical Government. I believe we will carry our candidates as firmly as there is a throne of 
God. But even if the defeat should fall upon us do not be discouraged; the time will come 
■when we shall redeem the country. Let no man leave the State. Let us lay our bones in Louisi- 
ana, and if these scalawags and carpet-baggers remain, let us- hunt them from the country." 

Capt. Edward Marshal, a brother of Thomas, made a speech at a recent Democratic ratifica- 
tion meeting, which is thus sketched in a Kentucky paper : 

" He was enthusiastic in support of Seymour, and gave his reasons therefor. He said 
Seymour was nominated as a war democrat for the reason that no other could win. He was 
called a war democrat, but he had never given any aid or support to the Government in 
prosecution of the war when it could bb avoided. In 18G3, when the rebel troops were in 
Pennsylvania, and the Government called on Seymour, wlio was then Governor of New York, 
to furnish troops to expel them, he answered in the same manner, if not in the same language, 
as the Governor of Kentucky in 1861, viz : that he would not send them. He did send them, 
however, roR the rbason that he was unablk to do othbbwisb." 



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